Some 75 towns across New South Wales have started accessing the Internet through Linux-based satellite routers in what is said to be largest network of its type in Australia spanning upwards of 800,000 square kilometres.
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In 1999 when Telstra began its satellite service we used routers from the US but they were unsatisfactory for Australian conditions, Cover said. We also tried to develop an interface with Windows but got too frustrated as [we found it] too unstable.

Ursys routers use Debian GNU/Linux as the base operating system and developed a networking application suite for it in Sydney.